Question

I know meteor exposes events such as “click”, for DOM element but I’m wondering if there’s a load event that’s fired when a template or partial is loaded? How would I accomplish this?

Thanks.

Answer 1

For Meteor starting from 0.4.0 preview, you can use Template.myTemplate.created.

In Template.myTemplate.created the DOM is not ready however.

If you need to manipulate the DOM, you might want to use Template.myTemplate.rendered instead and use a boolean value to track the state within the Template object like this:

Template.myTemplate.rendered = function() {
    if(!this._rendered) {
      this._rendered = true;
      console.log('Template onLoad');
    }
}